Siegmund l



. SALOMON.

GARMENT PROTECTOR (No Model.)

Patented Jan; 10, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SIEGMUND L. SALOMON, on NEW YORK, N.-Y.

GARMENT-PROTECTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming 5m of Letters Patent No. 376,210, dated January 10, 1888.

Application filed February 3, 1887. Serial No. 226,400. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIEGMUND L. SALOMON, a citizen of the United States, residing in. the the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Garments of Fur, and Plush and other Fabrics, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

In garments of fur-such, for instance, as seal-skin, and in those of plush fabrics, and, for instance, what is known as seal plush, the folded edges, especially those at the lower ends of the sleeves, also those down the front, are apt to become shabby by the wearing off of. the fur, nap, 'or pile from said edges, while other parts of the garment do not show conspicuouslyany sign of wear, but look to the ordinary observer as good as new.

The object of this invention is to protect these folded edges from wear and to preserve the fur, nap, or pile thereon; and to this end my improvement consists in the combination, with such a folded edge, of an inside protecting-piece made of a strip of rut-hing, and the inner edge of which is secured to the insidegof the garment at some distance from the said folded edge and between the lining and the fold of the said edge, while its outer edge, which isloose and free, is nearlyeven with, but slightly within, the said fold.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a side view of a sealplnsh garment having my invention applied at the edge of the sleeve and at the edges of Fig. 2 is a perspective sectional view of a portion of one of the folded edges, showing my protecting-piece.

A A designate the folded edges of the sleeve and the front of the garment to which my invention is applied.

B designates the protecting-piece, which is the principal feature of my invention.

0 designates the lining, between'which and the folded edge A the inner edge, I), of the protecting-piece is secured by sewing. This sewing may be the same by which the lining is secured to the garment near the folded edge to be protected.

The protecting-piece B has its outer edge slightly within the folded edge A of the garment, so that it may be as much as possible concealed from view while the garment is in wear, and being made of ruching,which makes the sleeve stand out, it keeps the fold A of the sleeve free from the wrist and hand, by the friction of which on the fold-edge of the sleeve the wear, and consequent shabbin'ess of the edge, is mainly produced in the absence of such protection as is afforded by said protectingpiece. v

The rnching protecting-piece applied along the folded front edge of the body of the garment protects that folded edge in the same manner as the ruching applied to the sleeve protects the folded lower edge of the latter.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with the folded edge and lining of a garment, of a protectingpiece of ruching lying close against the interiorof the garment, having its inner edge secured between the lining itself and the portion of the garment covered thereby, and having its outer end free andjust within the folded edge to be protected, substantially as herein described.

7 SIEGMUN D L. SALOMON. Witnesses:

WILLIAM 'A. DURNIN, FREDK. HAYNES. 

